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Thurston County officials has scrambled to issue August rent and utility checks for low-income residents after its contracted provider refused to continue the program.
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By The Olympian
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8/17/22
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In an Aug. 16 news release, the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs (WDVA) announced it will be offering free military cultural competency training for health care practitioners working …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/17/22
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The Pe Ell Town Council discussed challenges facing its emergency medical services (EMS) on Tuesday night.
Pe Ell’s EMS services are currently short-staffed and the town is facing …
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By Matthew Zylstra / matthew@chronline.com
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8/17/22
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Girl Scouts flocked around Centralia on Monday night, unleashing a flamboyance — the term for a group of flamingos — upon the city.
In the waning daylight, the six girls in …
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By Matthew Zylstra / matthew@chronline.com
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8/17/22
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WASHINGTON — Traffic deaths rose 7% in the first quarter of 2022 over last year, federal regulators announced in preliminary estimates Wednesday.
More than 9,500 people died on U.S. roads …
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Riley Beggin / The Detroit News (TNS)
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8/17/22
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WASHINGTON — The 2020 census missed the most households on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, according to the latest Census Bureau report released Tuesday.
The Census …
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Michael Macagnone / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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8/17/22
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden won temporary permission to once again pause energy leasing on federal lands and waters, after a U.S. appeals court found a trial judge’s order against …
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Laurel Calkins and Jennifer A. Dlouhy / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/17/22
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Nothing has been able to kill scam robocalls — not federal regulation, not individual state lawsuits, not private software. Each effort has made a dent, but the unwanted calls keep on coming, …
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Elaine S. Povich / Stateline.org (TNS)
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8/17/22
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The Biden administration is weighing Iran’s response to a European Union proposal aimed at reviving the 2015 international nuclear agreement, with officials on both sides of the Atlantic …
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Courtney McBride / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/17/22
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East Lewis County and much of central Washington is under a red flag warning — meaning weather conditions are unstable and bring a high risk for wildfire — through 10 p.m. on Thursday, …
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By Emily Fitzgerald/emily@chronline.com
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8/17/22
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A federal grand jury has indicted a Texas man with stealing more than $345,000 from an elderly Spokane man in a fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington …
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Quinn Welsch / The Spokesman-Review
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8/17/22
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A woman and her mother are suspected of killing 87-year-old Kenneth Morrison, who is the woman's father and the mother's ex-husband, according to the Lewiston Police Department.
Police arrested …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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8/17/22
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The Seattle City Council signed onto Mayor Bruce Harrell's police hiring and incentive plan Tuesday, offering hiring bonuses of up to $30,000 to new officers.
Harrell introduced a plan to hire …
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Sarah Grace Taylor / The Seattle Times
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8/17/22
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The landmark climate change and health care bill signed by the president Tuesday will unlock a wave of federal funding just as Washington prepares to launch a number of pivotal state programs.
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Nicholas Turner / The Seattle Times
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8/17/22
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A 40-year-old Seattle man jailed since March on allegations he randomly assaulted two women was charged Tuesday with premeditated first-degree murder, accused of bludgeoning a third stranger to death …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
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8/17/22
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The corpse flower at Washington State University Vancouver is officially blooming again.
Those interested in seeing the rare flower — known as Titan VanCoug — can visit it on display …
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Griffin Reilly / The Columbian
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8/17/22
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Yellowstone National Park hosted 596,562 recreation visits in July 2022. This was a 45% decrease from July 2021 (1,080,767 recreational visits), the most-visited July on record, and a 36% decrease …
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Eli Francovich / The Spokesman-Review
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8/17/22
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Emma Britton told The Chronicle on Tuesday morning she would be thrilled if one of her friends — the other four top candidates — won. Perhaps that attitude is what earned her the …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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8/16/22
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A controlled burn in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Capitol State Forest has spread.
What started out as a fire in a slash pile, which is a collection of stumps and other woody debris …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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8/16/22
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